Kakata, April 17 -- Agriculture in Liberia is a major sector of the country's economy worth 38.8% of the GDP, employing more than 70% of the population and providing a valuable export as defined by the UN. Liberia has a climate favorable for farming, vast forests, and an abundance of water yet low yields, good soils for crop production, Liberia has long suffered from food insecurity, due to extreme poverty and endemic in-efficiencies in the country's food and agricultural sector.

The sector also lacks basic infrastructure such as machines, farming equipment, farm to market roads, fertilizers, and pesticides as well as food storage capacity. Despite these and many challenges, the agriculture sector is still attractive to many Liberians be...